Happy Halloween

Okay, Halloween is MY holiday. Pretty much always has been. When I moved in with hubby I started to decorate his very tiny (like 4 feet by 4 feet) porch/landing. Then he got a job at a major drug store and his discount was like cost plus 20%, so we got almost everything at half price. . (sometimes I wish he still worked there, just for that) So then I started buying more and more. And our decorations spilled out into the yard. Soon we had lights and cobwebs everwhere, pumpkins, "scary" things, and even a skeleton.
THEN we moved here. And every year it has gotten bigger. A large graveyard with a "cast iron" fence, lights, gravestones, dead bodies, skeletons, ROTTING bodies, a 7-foot grim reaper, a zombie king.
Today is my day.
Tomorrow they all come down.
Maybe come November 2, I will have more time.
Happy Halloween!!!!

My first perfect hero

Hubby was flicking the channels the other day and decided to stop on The Empire Strikes Back. I make no secret of the fact that the original Star Wars trilogy is one of my favorite set of movies.

One of the reasons for this is Han Solo. Han is my first perfect hero. I love Han. I always have. I just saw one of my favorite scenes, when he kisses Leia for the first time. I love Han Solo.

New Obsession

Most of my heroines tend to be plus sized women. I very rarely give an actual size, as we each have our own thoughts on what plus sized means. For some of us it is a size 14, for some of us it is a size 24 or larger.

I like writing larger women because the average size in America is a size 14. Not size 0 or 2 or even 8. Size 14. That means more women are a size 14 than women who are sized like a model, or even like a professional athlete. So if I am writing a romance, something on the idea that each and every woman has a chance of, why not pick a “real” woman? Let me rephrase that, all women are real women. Let’s say a woman that is closer the average woman.

I have been watching a tv show lately, Drop Dead Diva. It is about a skinny pretty young model in her early twenties that dies, and when she comes back, she is in the body of a plus size 34 year old brunette lawyer. When I heard about it, my husband and I both were kind of like “that can go two ways”. We figured it would be really good or really insulting to plus sized women.

I have to say that I am impressed. I like the show. A lot. They seem to do a good job of presenting how a plus sized woman, and how a thin young woman would both view something. I can’t wait for more episodes of this show. I think I might just ask hubby to buy me season 1 for Christmas :).